Dig begins for remains of Troubles victim 50 years after disappearance
Seamus Maguire believed to have been killed and buried in County Antrim by republican paramilitaries in 1976
Half a century after Seamus Maguire was abducted and became one of the https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/10/its-like-45-years-of-torture-searching-for-the-bodies-of-the-troubles-victims">“disappeared” of Northern Ireland’s Troubles, a search for his remains has begun in two acres of County Antrim farmland.
A team of forensic experts started the dig on Tuesday in the Derryclone townland where republican paramilitaries are believed to have killed and secretly buried the 29-year-old in 1976.
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